Awesomest-Shirt-of-the-Thread Award!
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/15/2010 10:34:46 AM PST by hoagy62
Just perusing through the posts here on Free Republic this morning, I found the following:
Add to that:
I'm beginning to understand the logic (or lack thereof) of liberals who live in their 'fantasy worlds' who refuse to face reality. When you start realizing how utterly screwed up the world out there is, it would make any sane person want to go someplace and hide...for a long time.
Do any of you feel like that?
That shirt ROCKS!
There is a reason why the world no longer makes any sense.
Just when you think everything has hit bottom, the bottom falls out and we hit a new low. Before I get arrested for knocking the crap out of the first liberal I see, I escape to Farmville on Facebook to calm down. Or I talk to my parrots because they make more sense than anything that is going on....then I reload...
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I don’t have parrots but I certainly can relate.
I have Boxers and on my most horrible, rotten day ever—they can make me laugh and lighten up.
If there’s a survival kit, mine will include my Boxers just as surely as food and family.
The love, loyalty, animation and their booming personality make my life so much more.
Other than family, they’re one of the reasons I’m certain there’s a God.
I’m the same way with my Jockeys, although not quite as much!
Hey Hoagie, you, me and lots of people on this forum
feel the same way.
BUT, we always come back so that we may stay
informed, and to enjoy the comraderie of others
who think the way we do, although we
do not always agree.
I feel isolated most of the time - I live
in the Albany NY area and am surrounded by libs.
FRiends here are so smart and funny, and I make
my cheesy comments while learning from all
of you.
I do wish FR had a brick and mortar coffee shop/bar
to gather in.
Anyway, hang in here, Hoagy. We’re all in this together.
Absolutely.
In a “proper” society we would have a FREE media, unbiased and willing to take on the LIES put out by the GOVT.
Instead, we have a compliant, complicit, disinterested and uninterested media that rolls over and gets their collective tummies scratched. They are intellectually lazy and dishonest while failing to tell the truth.
In turn, there is a majority of the American people that are also intellectually lazy and dishonest and can’t / won’t analyze or think for themselves. They drink the Kool-Aid every day.
The quality of stupidity from the Obozo Regime and their boot-licking, lap-dog media is extremely high.
Just a survey of the headlines with misleading data, especially regarding the actual ‘cost’ of extending the Bush tax rates is horrible...
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Amazon Kindle has started pulling ebook erotica featuring incest from the store. In the comments section of a writing forum where this situation was discussed, conservatives were being blamed for this. The liberated types were saying what’s wrong with incest, and it’s just fiction, a fantasy, what the heck is wrong with the religious right, why do they have to complain and ruin everything for us and why is Amazon so stupid that they’d cave?
I couldn’t figure out what to say (1 v 100).
hahaha! You little stinker.
Wish I knew. Someone posted this jpeg to the forum and I snagged it because that statement cuts through all the bullsh*t.
Someone will be along any time now with a link to buy the shirt.
Get it here:
http://bikerzgearstore.com/Our-Forefathers-FOREFATHERS-SS-01.htm
Awesomest-Shirt-of-the-Thread Award!
Thanks. Given the tone of the thread, I figured I'd suggest an alternative to hiding out from the liberal onslaught. I personally think it's the preferred response of most patriots.
My life experience is that just when I am ready to slit my wrists, things change for the better.
Other than hanging on to that thought, I bury myself in work and am grateful to have it. I putter with my hydroponic veggies and my beautiful blooming and fruiting houseplants. I try to make home a sanctuary for my husband and myself and we both take much joy in our elderly Akita, who, thank God, really seems just about the same at 11 as he did at 5.
I don’t want the shooting to start. Once there, there is no turning back. I keep telling my husband that violence is what the multiple oppositions want and they need us to start it. I know that if we don’t, they will, while trying to make it look like it is us. So, we must stay above reproach.
Irresolution is difficult to handle for many of us, because we are doers. But, at least for now, no resolution means things could still turn out alright for us all and for America.
There is nothing at all wrong with our happy place, as long as we keep an ear out for the real world and stay grounded and prepared for good, as well as for ill.
See post # 6.
With all due respect, RL, the leftist traitors in this country will continue to strip away our freedoms and liberties like peeling an onion, until one day, we are utterly and completely enslaved. That is, unless we find it within ourselves to fight back with sufficient force to stop them.
Witness what the lame duck Democrat congress is doing this very minute. They know that they have been fired by the American people, so they're doing everything in their power to circumvent the will of The People by passing a raft of treasonous legislation in the twilight hours of their term. The results of the November elections were an historic repudiation of their party and their agenda, yet even that has done nothing to slow them down.
When you're dealing with tyrants of this sort, you must use a degree of opposing force, equal to, or greater than the force they're exerting against the people. Obviously, this isn't being done, because the onslaught against us continues unabated.
So, how much force is necessary to stop them in their tracks? I don't know, but it's definitely more than the level of opposition they're seeing now.
Our forefathers had to cross a Rubicon in their time. They, too, suffered under a tyrannical and diabolical regime. Came a point where they had exhausted all civil means of addressing their oppressors, and were forced to take it to the next and final level, in order to affect true redress of their grievances.
It's my opinion that we passed a similar point a long time ago, but our people have been so conditioned to obey authority, and to even fear their own government, that their natural inclination to respond to tyranny in the most moral, instinctive, and justified way, has been atrophied into inaction.
Apparently, we're now at a point in history where we nearly need to see the Redcoats looting and burning our towns to pull the flintlock down from the mantle.
That said, the American people do have a breaking point. My perception is that the ruling class is applying about 95% of the required pressure to unleash a real rebellion.
I wouldn't worry too much about the left attempting to lay blame on the patriotic right for initiating a break out of real hostilities. If it comes to that, they're going to lose - and lose badly. I doubt they'll be in any position to go around pointing fingers after the dust settles.
See post #15.
I respect you, as well, Windflier and I agree with most of your post. Points well taken. However, the rebellion this time will either make use of the ballot box and reaffirm our Constitutional basis or I see us being crushed by the combined power of a military that will mostly follow the chain of command (only officers are pledged to the Constitution and some of them will interpret their duty to be loyal to to the CinC) and local law enforcement, if we advance to the ammunition box. They can and will designate any armed rebellion as domestic terrorism.
I do not see much success in store for small groups of armed patriots against Leviathan. Enough of our populace will recoil from violence that such actions will fracture our side and destroy our present moral and legal high ground.
Look how far they have gotten with us still in full possession of our arms. They haven’t yet had to fire a shot. They are keeping their powder dry.
I lived under martial law in Milwaukee in 1968. The NG moved in overnight and we awoke to the reality of US troops in control of the streets and intersections, with no real warning. I saw young American soldiers from the National Guard manning machine guns mounted on trucks filled with another 4-6 armed soldiers, circling our block for several days. I experienced the polite checkpoints and watched people comply with the restrictions on movement and the need to present ID to go to work or to a grocery store. We were warned to exit our homes slowly, carrying nothing and we did. That was over fear of a race riot over a manufactured *Fair Housing* issue. It only lasted a few days. None of us had any doubts at all that the armed soldiers would shoot as warned. It _did_ result in most of the residents of our mixed-race, working class neighborhood coming closer together. Would that happen this time, or would the zerO-supporters and “let’s all get along” Republicans turn on their conservative neighbors and join forces with the regime? I don’t want to put that to the test because the resulting fractioning would harden and become permanent, as well as very mean and vindictive. Those two traits are already evident. There would be little media outcry for our rights and much rejoicing if we were arrested, put through show trials, imprisoned, fined into penury or shot. No ACLU for conservatives, IMO. They could and would suspend the 4th Amendment as quickly as they could, with the support of the majority of Americans.
The pressures being placed on us all at this point are intentional. They want us to react violently so that they can put us down, physically and politically. The hard leftists I used to know are not wusses. The real revolutionaries chomp at the bit to take out what they characterize as *reactionaries*. They are as well-armed as we are and, you remember:”Those are our fighter planes [troops/riot control cops], now.”
It is a trap.
It will take more strength to regain our nation peacefully and defeat them politically than to give in to frustration with anger and short-lived, futile violence. This isn’t 1773 and we are not physically hardened pioneers fighting an overly-regulated ground force using out-dated tactics. We are soft, modern, civilized people being crushed inside a police state that has modern technological capabilities that control our communications and can track our movements. They can instantly make it impossible for us to work or conduct any financial transaction. They have the power of sanction in so many areas of our lives that it will probably not even come down to more than isolated and sporadic incidents of disruption, on our part.
I do not like the present odds, if it comes down to armed resistance. That is such a final option that, IMO, it is wiser to continue to work within the system until and unless they make it clear that they will not even allow us that. And at that point, we will all need to pray very hard, because modern history does not show that we stand much of a chance in that event.
I respect you, as well, Windflier and I agree with most of your post. Points well taken. However, the rebellion this time will either make use of the ballot box and reaffirm our Constitutional basis or I see us being crushed by the combined power of a military that will mostly follow the chain of command (only officers are pledged to the Constitution and some of them will interpret their duty to be loyal to to the CinC) and local law enforcement, if we advance to the ammunition box. They can and will designate any armed rebellion as domestic terrorism.
I do not see much success in store for small groups of armed patriots against Leviathan. Enough of our populace will recoil from violence that such actions will fracture our side and destroy our present moral and legal high ground.
Look how far they have gotten with us still in full possession of our arms. They haven’t yet had to fire a shot. They are keeping their powder dry.
I lived under martial law in Milwaukee in 1968. The NG moved in overnight and we awoke to the reality of US troops in control of the streets and intersections, with no real warning. I saw young American soldiers from the National Guard manning machine guns mounted on trucks filled with another 4-6 armed soldiers, circling our block for several days. I experienced the polite checkpoints and watched people comply with the restrictions on movement and the need to present ID to go to work or to a grocery store. We were warned to exit our homes slowly, carrying nothing and we did. That was over fear of a race riot over a manufactured *Fair Housing* issue. It only lasted a few days. None of us had any doubts at all that the armed soldiers would shoot as warned. It _did_ result in most of the residents of our mixed-race, working class neighborhood coming closer together. Would that happen this time, or would the zerO-supporters and “let’s all get along” Republicans turn on their conservative neighbors and join forces with the regime? I don’t want to put that to the test because the resulting fractioning would harden and become permanent, as well as very mean and vindictive. Those two traits are already evident. There would be little media outcry for our rights and much rejoicing if we were arrested, put through show trials, imprisoned, fined into penury or shot. No ACLU for conservatives, IMO. They could and would suspend the 4th Amendment as quickly as they could, with the support of the majority of Americans.
The pressures being placed on us all at this point are intentional. They want us to react violently so that they can put us down, physically and politically. The hard leftists I used to know are not wusses. The real revolutionaries chomp at the bit to take out what they characterize as *reactionaries*. They are as well-armed as we are and, you remember:”Those are our fighter planes [troops/riot control cops], now.”
It is a trap.
It will take more strength to regain our nation peacefully and defeat them politically than to give in to frustration with anger and short-lived, futile violence. This isn’t 1773 and we are not physically hardened pioneers fighting an overly-regulated ground force using out-dated tactics. We are soft, modern, civilized people being crushed inside a police state that has modern technological capabilities that control our communications and can track our movements. They can instantly make it impossible for us to work or conduct any financial transaction. They have the power of sanction in so many areas of our lives that it will probably not even come down to more than isolated and sporadic incidents of disruption, on our part.
I do not like the present odds, if it comes down to armed resistance. That is such a final option that, IMO, it is wiser to continue to work within the system until and unless they make it clear that they will not even allow us that. And at that point, we will all need to pray very hard, because modern history does not show that we stand much of a chance in that event.
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